From www.ebible.org with slight reformatting by Martin Ward. Book 26 Ezekiel 001:001 Now it happened in the thirtieth year, in the fourth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I was among the captives by the river Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. 001:002 In the fifth [day] of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity, 001:003 the word of Yahweh came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Yahweh was there on him. 001:004 I looked, and behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire. 001:005 Out of the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. This was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. 001:006 Everyone had four faces, and each one of them had four wings. 001:007 Their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished brass. 001:008 They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings [thus]: 001:009 their wings were joined one to another; they didn't turn when they went; each one went straight forward. 001:010 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle. 001:011 Their faces and their wings were separate above; two [wings] of each one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. 001:012 Each one went straight forward: where the spirit was to go, they went; they didn't turn when they went. 001:013 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. 001:014 The living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. 001:015 Now as I saw the living creatures, behold, one wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, for each of the four faces of it. 001:016 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like a beryl: and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel within a wheel. 001:017 When they went, they went in their four directions: they didn't turn when they went. 001:018 As for their rims, they were high and dreadful; and they four had their rims full of eyes round about.